1st Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting

Call for Papers

Secure voting protocols, in particular so-called end-to-end verifiable schemes, have been a hot topic of research for the last decade or so. This research has spawned several workshops and the founding of a new journal: JETS. Voting poses many challenges: the precise characterization of very subtle properties including verifiability and coercion resistance, and the design and analysis of schemes providing these properties. The field requires a deep understanding of modern crypto but is also highly interdisciplinary, requiring understanding of the role of humans, procedures etc.

Papers should contain original research in any area related to electronic voting technologies, verifiable elections, and related concerns. Example topics include but are not limited to:

In-person voting systems

Remote/Internet voting systems

Voter registration and authentication systems

Procedures for ballot and election auditing

Cryptographic (or non-cryptographic) verifiable election schemes

Attacks on existing systems

Trust models

Resilience and robustness of voting systems

Designs of new systems

Experiences deploying voting systems or conducting elections

Experiences detecting and recovering from election problems

Formal or informal security or requirements analysis

Examination of usability and accessibility issues

Research on relevant regulations, standards, or laws

Important Dates

Submissions deadline

23:59 UTC, November 8, 2015

Notification of acceptance

November 30, 2015

Submission

Submissions will be judged on originality, relevance, correctness, and clarity.

Submissions must not substantially overlap with works that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should follow the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science format and should be no more than 15 pages including references and well-marked appendices. Accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Authors who wish to publish a full version of their paper later may opt-out by publishing a 1-2 page extended abstract only.

All submissions will be reviewed double-blind, and as such, must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references.